Railway-car.



PATENTED NOV. 11, 1903-;

H. J. BAYARD. RAILWAY GAR; APPLICATION FILED Jim. as, 1903.

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1 uunms PETERS 0 More L ma. wuu N UNITED STATES- Patented November 17,1903.

HYRAM J. BAYARD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIIEIGA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,155, datedNovember 17, 1903.

Application filed January 26, 1903. Serial No. 140,515. (No model) Toall whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HYRAM J. BAYARD, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and

a resident of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Cars, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvemen ts in railway-cars, andmore particularly to that class of freight-cars which are convertible,so as to be adapted for use either as box-cars or for gondola. orplatform cars, so as to be capable of use for the transportation offreight of difierent kinds; and the object of the invention is toprovide a car of this general character of an improved and simplifiednature and of a strong, durable, and inexpensive construction whichshall be conveniently and readily convertible to adapt it for use withfreight of various kinds.

The invention consists in certain novel features of the construction,combination, and arrangement of the several parts of theimproved car,whereby certain important advantages are attained, and the device ismade simpler, cheaper, and otherwise better adapted and more convenientfor use, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention,Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a car constructed according to myinvention and adapted for-use as a box-car. Fig. 2 is a plan view of thecar with its box-body removed and a portion of the flooring at each endbroken away to illustrate certain features of construction to behereinafter referred to. Fig. 3 is a partial vertical section takenthrough the car in the plane indicated by the line a a. in Fig. 1. Fig.t is a side elevation showing one of the tanks withwhich the car isprovided to adapt it for use in transporting liquid freight.

As shown in these views, 1 1 indicate the car-trucks, and 2 2 thecar-wheels, which are held upon axles held to turn in hearings in thetruck in the usual or any preferred way.

The car is constructed with a rectangular platform supported upon a sillof rectangular form and produced, as indicated in Figs. 1,

2, and 3, from two metal strips 8 and 9, ex-

tended around the platform and spaced apart from each other to receiveblocks 10 10, inserted between said metal strips to hold them away fromeach other, whereby openings 12 1-2 are produced between the metalstrips between the adjacent ends of the said blocks 10. The openings 12are arranged to extend verticallythrou gh the sill of the car-platform,and the blocks 10 may be held in place between the strips 8 and 9 by anymeans, as by bolts l1 11, as indicated in the drawings.

14 indicates a box-body for the improved car, and this body, as hereinshown, has the lower ends of certain of its upright frametimbersextended downward beneath the lower edge of the body in position toenter and pass through the openings 12 12 in the sill of the platform,as indicated at 13 in the drawings, so as to form an efficient means forholding the body in position upon the carplatform, while permitting saidbody to be readily and conveniently lifted off said platform when thebox-body is not required for use. By this construction it will bereadily seen that when it is desired to use the car as an ordinaryplatform-car the box-body 14: may be readily and quickly removed fromthe platform, leaving said platform entirely free and clear, and whensaid body It has been thus removed a body of any other construction maybe readily placed in position upon the platform, so as to adapt the carfor other uses, or, i'f-ldesired, stakes may be inserted in the openings12 in the sills, and removable sides may be held upon the platform, soas to adapt the car for various other uses.

1515 indicate beams extended along the sides of the car just within theside sills of 'the'platform, and 16 indicates a central beam or beamsextended along the center of the platform, there being spaces betweenthe beams 15 and 16 and at opposite sides of the center of the platform,in which spaces are extended tanks 17 17, extended lengthwisealong'opposite sides of the car, the end poi tions of said tanks .17being made of rectan gular cross-section and being passed up over thebolsters, and the central portions of the tanks being made enlarged, asindicated at 18, so as to depend in the space between the trucks 1 1 ofthe car, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 4. To strengthen the enlargedcentral Ioo portions 18 of the tanks, said central portions are providedwith reinforces 19 in the form of metal strips or bands extended alongthe under sides of said central portions of the tanks and held theretoby rivets or other means, the extremities of said strips 19 beingextended up, as shown in Fig. 4, so as to be adapted to pass above thebolsters to afford a strong and simple support for the enlarged centralportions of the tanks Where they depend between the car-truoks 1.

The tanks 17 are provided with openings 20 at the lower parts of theirenlarged central portions 18, so that their liquid contents may bereadily drawn off when desired, and for filling said tanks they areprovided in their upper parts with openings 24, to which access may behad through a trap 23 in the floor 22 of the car-platform, as indicatedin Fig. 2of the drawings.

21 indicates a siphon connection of a wellknown kind extended betweenthe two tanks, so as to permit the contents of one tank to be drawn ofiby Way of the outlet 20 of the other tank.

The improved car constructed according to my invention is of anextremely simple and inexpensive nature and is especially well' adaptedfor use, since it is adapted for ready conversion, so as to be capableof carrying freight of any kind, either solid or liquid. The body of thecar may also be constructed in the form of that of a cattle-car, andwhere this construction is adopted such body may also be readily removedand replaced by an ordinary box-body. It will also be obvious from theabove description that the improved car constructed according to myinvention is capable of considerable modification without materialdeparture from the principles and spirit of the invention, and for thisreason I do not Wish to be understood as limiting myself to the preciseform and arrangement of the several parts herein set forth in carryingout my invention in practice.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. A car having a platform provided with sills formed from metal stripsspaced apart to receive between them blocks between the ends of whichare produced openings extended vertically through the sills and adaptedfor the passage of stakes or projections extended down from a body,substantially as set forth.

2. A car having a platform provided with sills formed from metal stripsspaced apart to receive between them blocks between the ends of whichare produced openings extended vertically through the sills incombination with a car-body the lower part of which is provided withstakes or projections extended down from it and adapted to enter saidopenings in the sills, substantially as set forth.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 24th day of January, 1903.

, HYRAM J. BAYARD.

Witnesses:

HIRAM L. BROWN,

ABNER A. HODGES.

